Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-01-27

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establishments as well as dens of -prostitu-
ton and vice and giving numerous particu-
lars. 1t charges that house owned by
one of the commissioners Is used as an
office by the agent Of the Louisiana state
lottery and that Frank Hume, the president
of the liquor dealers association, is a
bondsman of one of the commissioners.
1t therefore prays for at borough investiga-
ton of the facts, and for the proper en-
forcement of law and protection of homes
within the district. After an animated
discussion of the petition, one and all
agreed that radical measures should be
adopted, and the pet ton was referred.
The bills granting pensions to the Wild
ows of Gen. Logan and Gen.
Frank Blair have been defeated in
the house committee on inval-
Id pensions. The division was made
on party lines, strictly. The only preced-
ents for ssing such bills are found in the
cases OF the widows and families of Ad-
miral Farragut Generals Hancock Thom-
as and Grant, and the majority of the
committee believe that it would be bad
policy to follow those precedents in view
]
ing widows of officers who would then be
entitled to pensions who are now exclud-
ed by the general law. Notwithstanding
this action of the committee the friends Of
the bill are confident that when it is put
ON its final passage, it will have a very
unanimous support.
The national board Of trade met in this
city on the 18th, and passed resolutions
favoring laws preventing the importation
of adulterated food and medicines; estab-
fishing a uniform grain standard for the
United States, and creating an economical
bankrupt law. A resolution favoring the
passage of the interstate commerce bill
was lost, as the board thought any action
on their part might endanger the passage
of the bill.
Congressman King and Jones OF Louisi.
ana had a quarrel in a barber shop the
other night which, but for the interference
of by-standers would have resulted in q
murder. The cause OF the quarrel is an
old family feud between the Jones and
Liddell families, two wealthy families on
the Black river Of Louisiana. During the
course of the feud, Jones's grandfather
was shot and killed by Mrs. Liddell, for
circulating defamatory reports about her;
Mrs. Liddell's son was killed by the
Jones's; Gen. Liddell was murdered by
the Jones's, father and son; and party
of Liddell's friends lynched the elder
Jones aud one son.
The bill granting a pension to Anna
Ethridge Hooks, celebrated Michigan
woman, who acted as a field and hospital
nurse during the war, has been passed
by the senate. Mrs. Hooks service was
with the second, third and fourth Michi-
gan regiments. She was on the
field in the thickest of the fight
once in Virginia, and when the command
err Cell MORALLY wounded she jumped upon
his horse, rallied the soldiers and led the
charge. In her papers for pension is a
letter from the late Gen. Hancock Of a
highly eulogistic nature. Mrs. Hooks Is in
bad health as the result of exposure and IL
poor, it is said.
There has been a lingering hope in all
parts Of the country that an amended ex-
tradition treaty between the United
States and Great Britain would be rati-
fed at this session of congress, but the
senate is dissatisfied with the one propos-
ed and there is very little chance for its
ratification.
The Debts of the Pacific Roads.
Secretary Manning informs the senate,
in reply to "a resolution of inquiry, that
81 DIN Pacific
railroads for interest paid by the United
| State> TO Jan. /, 1887, was $40, S5i.325, of
which S2l, $50, LA had been repaid, leaving
due S49302 Isl. There will be due on the
same account at maturity of the sub
sidiary bonds, Sept. IL, 1897, the further
sum Of S43, 405, 92l. making total OF SJ9,
| 10J, l03 due and to become due on account
of interest. There is also to become due
on account of principal of these bonds at
maturity the sum of S64, 623, 5l2, making an
aggregate Indebtedness due and to become
due of sl51, 332,6l5.
Tramped to Death.
A frightful accident happened In Lon
The Hebrew Dramatic Club gave an enter
tainment at u theater in Princess street
Spitalfelds, .hich was attended by about
500 persons, mostly Jews. Some one in
the gallery, doubtless for joke, shouted
Fire" The gas was Immediately turned
Off at the meter and terrible panic en-
sued. The people rushed in solid mass
for the doors and numbers were trodden
under foot. When the panic had subsidized
IL was found that twelve women and five
youths had been trampled to death in the
rash to escape and many Others injured.
Three Men Burned to Death.
The Arlington house in New Westmni-
ster b. c., was burned on the 18th inst. The
structure, being wooden, was soon one
mass of flames. and three guests, unable to
escape, burned to death. Their names
! were Thomas Mackey. contractor OF
Frazer River lighthouses: Geo. Campbell
of Sherbrooke, Que. and Rufus Brown, a
fence builder Of the Canadian Pacific rail